OUTRAGE OVER HAWAIIAN BURIAL SITE CONTINUES
California Developer Puts Profits Over People & House Over Graves
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - October 3, 2008
LIHU`E, KAUA`I - Dozens of Hawaiians and their supporters testified yesterday in tears and with shouts and voices crackling with emotion before the Kaua`i Ni`ihau Burial Council....
"The state has made a mistake, a big, major mistake," said Jim Medeiros, a Big Island resident. "Once you start building on the graveyards, it will become a (precedent) in the state...."
Joseph Brescia, who bought the land in 2000 from actor Sylvester Stallone, has received permits from the county and state to build the home and has already poured the fittings for the home and a concrete cap for the five burials underneath the home....
"The building should not be there, period," said council member Barbara Say yesterday. "I didn't know they were going to be cemented. ... What is wrong with this man?"
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